27 november 2005 was the last issue of Kernel Traffic. Today it’s 13 march 2007 and I still seem to miss it. Kernel Traffic always was a nice read-up to what was going on with Linux kernel development. I am still hoping that Zack Brown will someday start releasing new Kernel Traffic’s because I’ve still found no substitute for it.
It seems like I read more and more silly things in the news.
A woman in colorado is sueing the Internet Archive for crawling her site. She put the following notice up on her site: “IF YOU COPY OR DISTRIBUTE ANYTHING ON THIS WEB SITE, YOU ARE ENTERING INTO A CONTRACT”.
Now, if you think you are smart enough to put a site up on the internet you should also obtain some knowledge about how everything works. Do you think she ever heard of a file called ‘robots.txt’. You know, it’s a file in which you can put settings for web crawlers. That way you can tell every web crawler to ‘Fuck Off and get Laid’ or something more friendly.
But, no she must have thought… ‘I just put up a notice on my site and the everybody knows they shouldn’t index it’. Like web crawlers can read notices. How bloody stupid can you be? They should sue Suzanne Shell for putting a site up on the net without knowing how the internet works.
Now, I hope the american judge does know there are ways that you can make sure that web crawlers steer clear of your site and doesn’t say Suzanne is right because then the internet will become a totally different place where sites get hard to find… You have to register to every friggin’ search engine there is to make sure you site is indexed…. That would totaly uncool.
Today I was wondering what the f*ck Novell is doing…
When I look on the Novell site I see the following in the section lower costs “Receive over 90 percent of the functionality of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office for less than 10 percent of the price” In my world (and the world I live in might be different from real life) this means the you get allmost the same as Windows Vista for a very small price. So… it’s cheaper… right?
Until I read the following on zdnet “Novell has issued a joint press release with Microsoft, in which HSBC, a customer of joint technology from the two companies, claims that Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux.”
I don’t get it… Now I know that the first is for the desktop os and the latter most likely for the server side (which actualy isn’t mentioned) it still looks pretty strange to me that Novell as a competing company to Microsoft would say the Microsoft has cheaper products…. But the again… I have no idea of marketing..
Yesterday on debian-devel-announce mailinglist:
N = 2 Apr 2007:
0 RC bugs. Barring any problems that would cause us to need to re-roll the installer <knock on wood>, we should be ready to release.
Will there be a debian release? Who knows….
If anyone passing by knows a good SELinux book, I would like to know… 
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